València Inspires Design 2026: A global experience around the habitat
When design speaks the same language: this is how the great habitat week at Feria Valencia will unfold, with the joint celebration, from 28 September to 1 October, of Feria Hábitat València, Textilhogar, Espacio Cocina SICI and the new 360 by Cevisama initiative. The multi-event gathering will bring together more than 1,200 exhibiting brands across an exhibition area of ten halls and over 110,000 m², in an event growing in all its dimensions through an unprecedented initiative in the European trade fair landscape.
It is becoming increasingly complex to understand design through isolated disciplines. Architecture dialogues with interior design; materials condition furniture; the kitchen integrates into the domestic space; textiles bring identity and comfort; ceramics transcend wall and floor coverings to become an architectural element. Contemporary projects demand a global perspective.
And within this context of change, a trade fair ceases to be merely a commercial showcase to become a reflection of how this entire industry is evolving. That is precisely what is happening with Feria Hábitat València, which this autumn will take another step in its growth to lead an unprecedented proposal in Spain: València Inspira Diseño, a major platform where all the elements involved in creating a contemporary space come together.
This approach responds to a reality that architects, interior designers, and specifiers know well. Today it is impossible to design a hotel, a residence, a restaurant, or an office without understanding the constant dialogue between furniture, lighting, textiles, kitchens, materials, coverings, or ceramics. Projects are no longer built in watertight compartments.
Built upon this global vision, València Inspira Diseño will bring together Feria Hábitat València, Textilhogar, Espacio Cocina SICI, and the new 360 by Cevisama area at Feria Valencia from September 28 to October 1, consolidating one of the largest European events dedicated to design, architecture, and habitat equipment.
Four major sector trade fairs
By sector, Feria Hábitat València maintains the main weight of the event, with an extensive international range of furniture, lighting, decoration, and contract proposals across more than 90,000 m². For its part, the offerings of the veteran Textilhogar show will be distributed according to the fair’s sectorial arrangement, featuring the best home textiles, contract, upholstery, and decoration.
The biennial Espacio Cocina SICI, co-organized with the sector association AMC, returns in 2026 with the latest kitchen furniture and equipment proposals and a renewed commitment to innovation and the future of the kitchen with its ‘AMC Kitchen Lab’ area, designed by Francesc Rifé.
Also noteworthy will be the debut in this initiative of the new 360 by Cevisama area, evolving from the traditional ceramics fair toward a concept where the bathroom takes center stage, along with wall/floor coverings and surfaces focused on interior design and contract projects. More than a hundred exhibiting brands have backed this new initiative.
1,200 exhibiting brands and 110,000 m² of exhibition space
The scale of the project speaks for itself. In total, over 1,200 exhibiting companies, ten halls, and an area exceeding 110,000 square meters will turn the Valencia exhibition center into a true map of contemporary design, where leading international brands will coexist alongside manufacturers, textile publishers, kitchen companies, ceramic firms, and emerging materials.
Overall, the event grows across all parameters. Compared to the 2024 edition (the last joint gathering), there is a 17% growth in gross exhibition area and a 32% increase in the number of exhibiting brands.
Furthermore, over 3,000 national and international buyers have been invited through various trade missions supported by entities such as ICEX, Ivace + i Internacional, and Feria Valencia itself, driven by sector associations including Anieme, Fedai, Ateval – Home Textiles From Spain, Arvet, Aseban, and Fevama.
But perhaps the greatest success of this evolution lies not in the numbers…
A unique proposal to understand the complete project
As initiative coordinator Daniel Marco explains, “for an architect or interior designer, the proposal is particularly attractive. In just a single day, they can discover new furniture collections, select textiles, explore the latest kitchen proposals, examine innovations in ceramic surfaces, investigate emerging materials, and hold meetings with manufacturers from sectors that previously required visiting different trade fairs.”
It is a different way of understanding a fair: less fragmented, more transversal, and much closer to the reality of architecture and interior design studios.
In this sense, for the first time, all common areas will be conceived under a single creative direction, led by the Odosdesign studio, responsible for designing shared spaces and building a coherent visual narrative for the event as a whole. This is not merely an aesthetic intervention.
It is a way to reinforce the identity of a project that aims to be much more than the sum of several fairs.
Spaces 2026 | Inspiration as a common thread
Beyond the commercial weight of the gathering, one of the defining features of Feria Hábitat València for years has been its ability to turn the exhibition venue into a space for experimentation, reflection, and design culture. It achieves this through various exclusive spaces distributed throughout the fair.
- This year, one of the main highlights will be Hotel Hábitat (N2P6), a project conceived by Mexican architect Joaquín Homs, imagining a hotel where each room serves to explore new ways of living. Far from being a temporary installation, the space will function as a true architecture and interior design laboratory, developed alongside benchmark studios and leading companies in the sector.
Viruta LAB, José Arroyo, and Studio HC will complete the Hotel Hábitat spaces, along with proposals from Porcelanosa, Stone Designs, Abez, Made Studio, and Odosdesign through various suites that offer a tribute to Federico García Lorca, a space constructed from reflections, or a room conceived as a succession of layers of earth, nature, matter, culture, light, and cosmos.
- The tour continues at the Ágora nude (N2P6 Bis), which will once again bring together some of the most influential voices in design, architecture, and interior design to debate sustainability, innovation, well-being, and new ways of designing spaces.
- Just a few meters away, the Salón nude (N2P6 Bis) will maintain its essence intact as an essential platform for discovering emerging talent. In this edition, it will feature six emerging professionals and studios and nine schools and training centers, with international participation from Mexico. The Salón nude is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and the Fundació del Disseny de la Comunitat Valenciana.
- València Inspira Diseño 2026 also includes an exhibition dedicated to the National Innovation and Design Awards (N2P6 Bis), a journey through some of the names that have shaped the recent history of design in Spain, championing design and innovation as strategic tools for competitiveness.
The showcase will feature pieces from Escofet, Punt Mobles, Santa & Cole, Mobles 114, Roca, Nani Marquina, Andreu World, Stua, Sellex, Royo, Figueras, Marset, Simon, Cosentino, Actiu, Point, Porcelanosa Grupo, LZF Lamps, Expormim, Ondarreta, Sancal, Kriska Decor, Viccarbe, and La Fábrica. An exhibition promoted by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
- Among the most anticipated installations is also the exhibition proposal by Andreu World ‘Manufacturing the Future’ (Central Forum), which will once again demonstrate how an exhibition can become a manifesto on innovation, sustainability, and design culture.
- The kitchen will once again occupy a central role with the return of the biennial Espacio Cocina SICI and, especially, thanks to the AMC Kitchen Lab space (N3P3), where Francesc Rifé’s design will serve as the backdrop for an intense program of lectures and showcookings addressing the kitchen as one of the great hubs of contemporary living.
- Material innovation will arrive via Matter (N2P6 Bis), whose installation will invite visitors to touch, experiment, and understand how new materials are transforming the way spaces and objects are designed.
- Meanwhile, the Textile Trends Space 2027 (N3P1) will present, in collaboration with AITEX, the six trends that will define the design and development of home textiles in 2027. The project is part of VALHABITAT 2026, supported by the Regional Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Innovation and Commerce of the Generalitat Valenciana through IVACE+i.
- Completing the exclusive spaces of this year’s edition is a tribute to design from the Valencian Community with the ADCV exhibition (N3 Dist), highlighting the most outstanding projects by its professional members.
Design, architecture, and technology.
This is the conference program of València Inspira Diseño 2026
Over four days, the event has curated an agenda featuring prominent architects, designers, interior designers, manufacturers, specifiers, companies, and experts who will analyze the main challenges and opportunities in the sector across three main stages: Ágora nude, Foro Hotel Hábitat, and Foro AMC Kitchen Lab, alongside the inaugural inclusion of Salón EXCO in the trade fair’s professional agenda.
- Ágora nude: design as a driver of innovation and transformation
The Ágora nude stage will bring together a broad representation of talent and contemporary reflection on design during València Inspira Diseño, with a program connecting creativity, industry, architecture, craft, and new ways of understanding the profession.
Highlights include the National Innovation and Design Awards Gathering, opened by Teresa Riesgo Alcaide, Secretary General for Innovation at the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, alongside a series of panel discussions on design, talent, business, and innovation. The program will also explore the intersection of modular design and craftsmanship with Diego Abellán and Inma Jiménez (ABEZ), Juan Bohajar (Cristal Antiguo), and Marc Pérez (Invento Project), and investigate the application of neuroscience to spaces with architect Juan Carlos Baumgartner.
The relationship between contemporary craft and communication will feature Adrián Salvador, Lucas Zaragosí, Ana Illueca, and Candela Blasco, while the Women in Office Design panel will bring together Harsha Kotak and Alicia Cambra, moderated by Soledat Berbegal and Gracia Cardona.
Design as a tool for well-being will be another key axis, featuring a panel organized by Actiu with participants including Juan Carlos Baumgartner and Nazaret Busto, among others. The program will also incorporate a look at sustainability and climate adaptation presented by Alicia Cambra.
Emerging talent will have its dedicated space with the presentation of MoDE (Moviment de Disseny Emergent), promoted by the ADCV, while Tomás Alía and Eva Toledo will address the relationship between creation, rights, and innovation. The program is rounded out by the presentation of the Valencia Design Map (Mapa del Disseny de València) by Vicent Molins, and Crafting Reality with Polish artist and designer Agnieszka Mazur, in an agenda that establishes Ágora nude as a meeting point between new generations of designers, established professionals, and the habitat industry.
- Foro Hotel Hábitat: new perspectives for architecture and contract
The Foro Hotel Hábitat will gather leading professionals from the hotel, interior design, and contract sectors at València Inspira Diseño to discuss how design, innovation, and experience are transforming hospitality spaces.
The program will kick off with Nuria Montes and Mayte García, Secretary General and Executive Director of HOSBEC respectively, analyzing new hotel product models based on the experience of rooftop spaces in the Valencian Community, while Ángela Moyano will extend the discussion to the international stage with the Larimar City & Resort project in the Caribbean. A central moment will be the presentation of Hotel Hábitat 2026 by architect Joaquín Homs, showcasing the distinct perspectives of participating studios and companies in this installation.
The program will further examine the evolution of hospitality with professionals such as Nacho Soriano (Voolcan Grupo), Javier Muñoz Posse (Founder and CEO of Furtivo), María Medina and Alicia Verdasco (The Hamptons Luxury Home Staging), and Nora García (Director of ESTIMAR Valencia), who will discuss the gap between architectural concept and operational reality in hotel projects.
Artificial intelligence will also play a prominent role, both in contract project development and design and communication, with sessions led by ROS and Juan Sala (Laurel Visuals). The forum will also offer a strategic analysis of hotel investment with Rupert Fornell, while Nyra Troyce will present thoughts on design as a generator of identity, well-being, and emotional connections.
The relationship between design and business will feature in Ana Bernabeu’s talk (Succuhome) and in a well-being panel bringing together María Alonso, Núria Castilla, Mauro Blay, and Jesús Delgadillo, moderated by Àfrica Sabé, analyzing how architecture, lighting, technology, and neuroscience shape our daily experiences.
The program concludes with an overview of Home Textile Trends 2027 by AITEX, a reflection on materiality, sustainability, and innovation with Natalia Ojeda (Matter), and a dedicated session on hotel contract featuring studios such as Bieto Studio, Triar Arquitectura, Huma Architect, Gómez Vázquez Internacional, and Alberta Norweg, along with representatives from companies involved in integration, hotel management, housing manufacturing, and property.
- AMC Kitchen Lab: the future of the kitchen through innovation and technology
The Foro AMC Kitchen Lab presents a program fusing cuisine, design, technology, and innovation through an agenda of lectures, professional meetings, and showcookings. One of the headline figures will be chef Martín Berasategui, sharing the stage with former basketball player Fernando Romay to discuss the link between nutrition, rest, ergonomics, and well-being.
Artificial intelligence will also serve as a core topic with the dialogue “AI proposes. The professional disposes,” led by interior architect and Insenia director Carlos Rubio and Zania Group CEO Xavier Pérez, focusing on AI applications for companies, stores, and kitchen studios. The program further explores equipment evolution and design through presentations such as “The Art of Movement” by Kesseböhmer and “The Connected Kitchen: Innovation, Design, and Technology at the Service of the New Consumer” by Manuel Royo.
Live cooking will take center stage with chefs María Morales and Javier Peña, while Michelin-starred chef Carito Lourenço will lead a showcooking event for Biesse. Among the professional gatherings, the Kitchen Shopping Day, presented by Carmen Alcayde, stands out, featuring Cloen CEO Pablo Cerra, Cosentino Group Vice President of Institutional Relations and Corporate Reputation Santiago Alfonso, Marc Murcia from Instop, and Quooker Spain Country Manager Juan Diego Jiménez. The program finishes with presentations on technological integration, home appliances, innovation, and emerging talent—such as the Antalia Decora Awards—solidifying AMC Kitchen Lab as a space where kitchen design intersects with gastronomy, technology, and modern living concepts.
The addition of Salón EXCO and València Design Fest
The professional programming of València Inspira Diseño will be completed by Salón EXCO, joining the trade fair’s official agenda, and the opportunity to experience the full schedule of activities of València Design Fest 2026 throughout the week, cementing the city’s position as a major international benchmark for design.
A week dedicated to design in València
The professional programme of València Inspira Diseño will be completed by Salón EXCO, which will form part of the event’s agenda, as well as by the opportunity to enjoy the full programme of València Design Fest 2026 activities throughout the week, further consolidating the city as one of the world’s leading design destinations.